38 courses with the subject ANTH V, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Social organization and social change in China from late imperial times to the present. Major topics include family, kinship, community, stratification, and the relationships between the state and local society.
Exploration of the manner in which various anthropologists have constructed “culture” as being constituted of a set of conventional signs called “symbols” and the consequences of such a construal. Among the authors read are the anthropologists Valentine Daniel, Mary Douglas, Clifford Geertz, Claude Levi-Strauss, Sherry Ortner, David Schneider, Margaret Trawick, and Victor Turner; the social theorists Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, and Max Weber; the semioticians Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce; and the psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement Examines four major aspects of contemporary South Asian societies: nationalism, religious reform, gender, and caste. Provides a critical survey of the history of and continuing debates over these critical themes of society, politics, and culture in South Asia. Readings consist of primary texts that were part of the original debates and secondary sources that represent the current scholarly assessment on these subjects.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
Prerequisites: Non-Anthropology majors require the instructor's permission.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
Transnational advocacy is an increasingly important dimension of contemporary globalizations, reconfiguring relations of knowledge, power, and possibility across cultures and societies. As sites for enacting expertise, activism, and legality, transnational advocacy networks are crucial for not only making claims and causes mobile across locales, but for making hem moving within locales -- affective and effective. While transnational advocacy networks are often studied by political scientists, this course focuses on a growing body of anthropological and ethnographic research.
Language is central to political process. While all agree that language is used to symbolize or express political action, the main focus of this course is on how language and other communicative practices contribute to the creation of political stances, events, and forms of order. Topics addressed include political rhetoric and ritual; political communication and publics; discrimination and hierarchy; language and the legitimation of authority; as well as the role of language in nationalism, state formation, and in other sociopolitical movements, like feminism and diasporic communities. Since this course has the good fortune of coinciding with the 2012 U.S. Presidential election, we will make significant use of campaign rhetorics as a means of illustrating and exploring various themes.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Enrollment limited to 20, plus instructor's permission required. This course will examine cities in comparative perspective, over time and space, from several viewpoints. We will examine how and when they develop, how they function, and what urban life is like. Is the urban experience the same for all residents? At all times? In all places? We will begin with theory and some urban history and then focus on New York as a laboratory, from its origins to the present. The course involves a kind of archaeology called "ethnoarchaeology" in which we look at living societies and communities in order to gain a better understanding of past and present. Our examination of contemporary urban life pays special attention to spatial organization and order, the geography of power in the urban landscape, and to material things, as these are the kinds of data that archaeologists typically focus on.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Explores what a post-human anthropology might look like. Readings draw from anthropology, actor-network theory, science studies, media studies, and science fiction.
Ancient Egypt was one of the most advanced cultures in antiquity. This course will go beyond the pyramids and pharaohs to investigate the culture and daily life of the ancient Egyptians from the Old Kingdom to the Hellenistic period. Students will learn about ancient Egyptian magic, emotion, cosmogony, education, recreation, travel, and diplomacy by reading ancient Egyptian folklore, dream spells, love poetry, wisdom texts, religious hymns, and royal propaganda in translation. In addition to exploring the laws, occupations, and medical knowledge of the ancient Egyptians, we will also analyze how gender, race, sexuality, class, and disability were constructed and represented.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
Prerequisites: Introduction to Archaeology or permission of the instructor required.
The creation of the earliest states out of simpler societies was a momentous change in human history. This course examines major theories proposed to account for that process, including population pressure, warfare, urbanism, class conflict, technological innovation, resource management, political conflict and cooperation, economic specialization and exchange, religion/ideology, and information processing.
Enrollment limited to 16. Instructor's permission is required. Reading theories of media and of religion, we will examine how transformations in media technology shift the ways in which religion is encoded into semiotic forms, how these forms are realized in performative contexts, and how these affect the constitution of religious subjects and religious authority. Topics include word, print, image, and sound in relation to Islam, Pentecostalism, Buddhism and animist religions.
Prerequisites: Previous enrollment in an Anthropology course. Sophomore standing. Enrollment limited to 20 students.
Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor is required.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Instructor's permission is required. The transgression of taboos is the basis of crime, sex, and religion in any society. As "the labor of the negative", transgression is also a critical element in thought itself. Working through anthropology of sacrifice and obscenity, as well as relevant work by Bataille, Foucault, and Freud, this course aims at understanding why taboos exist and why they must be broken.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Prerequisites: Students must sign-up in the Anthropology Department prior to registering for this course.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Priority given to upper class Anthropology and Music majors; students must attend operas outside of class.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Social Analysis (SOC I)., BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).Enrollment limited to 16. Provides a critical overview of the theoretical engagement between anthropology and media theory. It explores the relationship between technologies and transformations in ideas of time, space, and sociability; and examines what it means to live in a mediated society.
Prerequisites: Instructor's permission.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). The recent proliferation of writings on the social significations of the human body have brought to the fore the epistemological, disciplinary, and ideological structures that have participated in creating a dimension of the human body that goes beyond its physical consideration. The course, within the context of anthropology, has two considerations, a historical one and a contemporary one. If anthropology can be construed as the study of human society and culture, then, following Marcel Mauss, this study must be considered the actual, physical bodies that constitute the social and the cultural.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. Intended for seniors, but not necessarily anthropology majors.
Prerequisites: the instructor's permission.
BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL).
Source: Barnard College's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61
